After searching through a variety of management systems that
could be used within the classroom I found a few that I felt could be very
useful. The two that kept coming up in
discussions and I even found them to be ranked higher in the rankings and
reviews by other technology places were WordPress and Haiku Learning. I really liked what I saw in Haiku Learning
and thought that this would be a good collaborative system to use in the
classroom. After seeing that others in
the class had already reviewed Haiku Learning, I thought that even though I
found it to be very useful, I would keep looking and try to find another that hasn’t
been reviewed yet. The one that I found
and liked was Wimi by Cloud solutions.
Wimi is a collaborative cloud based site
that creates an environment of ease and excitement for the users. Wimi is built to be an easy to use platform
that allows for faster production on projects and even increased effort within
the team.
Documents: Wimi allows for easy file sharing and
editing. It also integrates very easily
with Google apps making for smoother transition to the system. It also provides easy online editing and the
ability to monitor the documents because of the rights management where you
maintain the control of the document.
Because it is cloud based, the files automatically synchronize in real
time across all computers connected. It
also provides the ability to send large files by creating a link that then can
be used to download the file. The file
sync ability allows for work to be done on documents from almost anywhere.
Tasks and Projects: Wimi allows you to manage your group’s
projects and activities easily and efficiently.
You are able to create new projects quickly and can even manage the
responsibilities within the project of the team members. Wimi allows for timelines to be incorporated
so that the team members will know the important dates along the way. It also has the ability to notify when these
dates have become past due. You are also
able to create a project journal for the team and you even have the ability to
track the history of the project.
Calendars: Wimi has a built in calendar where you are able to share key
points to the activities and projects.
You are able to create a main calendar for the class as well as each
project itself is given the ability to have a shared calendar just for that
project. These calendars are synced to
all users which provides the key dates as well as tracks the users to make sure
they are working on project and keeping up with the material. You can even set reminders in these shared
calendars.
Communication: Wimi AirTime provides the ability to initiate
screen sharing and audio/ video calls without needing to download any other
software. Because of these features, it
makes it very easy to communicate using Wimi.
Collaboration: Online collaboration is easy to use and you can even add other
members to the project at any time allowing for up to the minute access to the
project’s work. The set-up is easy to
follow and the team members will always be able to know who they are working
and communicating with during the project.
As the teacher, you are able to easily control the access rights to whoever
is in the project.
After looking at this system
and reviewing the web page I think this would be a great tool to use in the
classroom as a collaborative management system.
It is cloud based which makes it safe to use anywhere, and it is easy to
track and monitor providing very detailed feedback. Wimi integrates very easily with Google apps
so schools that already use Google would not see any fallback. There many ways to communicate and
collaborate when using Wimi. I think it
would be a great way to incorporate parents and keep them up to date on what is
going on with in the classroom. Wimi
does provide a small free platform, and one that would work within the
classroom would not be very expensive.
For fewer than six dollars a month it seems that it would be money well
spent for what you are able to do.
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